Christina Vert, M.S.

Christina Vert, M.S. is a Health Program Specialist for Channels, Synapses, and Circuits at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). Ms. Vert assists with the coordination of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs at NINDS http://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/small-business/index.htm. Ms. Vert received her Bachelor of Science Degree from Delaware Valley College of Science and Agriculture, Doylestown, PA and earned her Master of Biomedical Science from Hood College in Frederick, MD. Ms. Vert joined the NIH in 1995 as a Biologist in the Clinical Neuroscience Branch in intramural NIMH. She studied Gauchers disease while also working in the Transgenic Core Facility creating transgenic and knockout mice for intramural investigators. In 2002 she joined the NINDS Channels, Synapses, and Circuits Cluster as a Program Analyst where her main disease focus has been epilepsy. In 2006 because of her interest in helping investigators translate their discoveries to the public she started to work with the small business grant program.